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Linux Shell Programming and Makefiles

Course id: 0042

Synopsis

Automation greatly helps in improving overall productivity and quality during product development. There are various ways to perform automation but the most popular use in an engineering environment is shell scripts and Makefiles.

While often used in software development, these capabilities can also be extended to other domains.

Course highlight
Participants will have practical experiences writing, verifying and debugging shell scripts and Makefiles.

What you will learn

This course concentrates on the theoretical and practical knowledge to allow participants to achieve the following learning outcomes. Upon completing the course, participants would be able to:

Access variables and system parameters from shell scripts
Use operators and control structures in shell scripts
Execute commands within shell scripts
Write shell scripts for automating tasks
Write makefiles to automate source file compilation

Who should attend

This course is particularly suited for design engineers, hardware engineers, systems engineers, application engineers, software engineers and programmers who wish to learn how to use GNU Make to automate manual tasks.

Prerequisite

Participants must have some programming knowledge and basic command-line experience in using Linux/Unix.

Course methodology

This course is presented in a workshop style with example-led lectures interlaced with hands-on practical for maximum understanding.

Course duration

2 days.

Course structure

Introduction to Bourne Again Shell (bash)
- Why shell programming
- Why bash
Basic Data Handling
- Variables and Parameters
- Arrays
- Operations
Control Structures
- Loops and branches
- Command substitution
- Functions
- Arithmetic expansion
Commands
- Internal commands
- External commands
Additional Bash
- Here document
- Regular expressions
- I/O redirection
- Process substitution
Introduction to Makefiles
- Why use Makefiles
- Makefiles and Shell scripts
Makefile Basics
- Writing a simple Makefile
- Rules
- Variables and Macros
- Functions
- Commands
Advance Makefiles
- Managing projects with Makefiles
- Portability
- Improving Makefile performance
- Debugging Makefiles
Discussion & Conclusion

Course Schedule

Consultancy

Technical Consultancy

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